Want to learn more about female warrior names in history? This article will outline 100 female warrior names you need to know.
If you have ever seen the movie Wonder Woman or heard about the great Cleopatra of Egypt, then you know that women are incredible.
There have been scores of women, proudly called female warriors who have fought for the right things, sacrificed or even fought for their own interests. No matter their motives, these female warrior names are too big to ignore.
Here are the names of those female warriors
- Joan (of Arc)
- Scathach ( of Ireland)
- Queen Teuta of Illyria
- Tomoe Gozen and the Onna-Bugeisha (Of Japan)
- Queen Boudica ( of the British Iceni tribe)
- Ana Nzinga ( of Angola)
- Grace O’ Malley ( From an Irish clan of the West Coat)
- Zenobia ( Queen of the Palmyrene (Syria) Empire)
- Queen Cleopatra
- Lozen ( of the Chiricahua Apaches)
- Artemisia of Caria
- Fu Hao ( Chinese General of the Shang Dynasty)
- Pantea Arteshbod ( Persian Commander)
- Chrysame
- Tellesilla ( Spartan Poet)
- Tomyris ( Massagetae Queen)
- Boudicca
- Khutulun
- Mai Bhago
- Rani Velu Nachiyar
- Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua
- The Dahomey Amazons
- Matilda of Tuscany
- TRIỆU THỊ TRINH (Vietnamese Joan of Arc)
- Nakano Takeko
- Nandi ( Also called, mother of Shaka Zulu of South Africa)
- Kandake Amanirenas ( Queen of the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush and Yaa Asantewaa, now Ghana)
- Amina ( of the ZauZau Kingdom, now Zaria)
- Ahhotep I ( Egyptian Queen)
- Onomaris ( of Galatian)
- Amage ( Of Scythian)
- Antandra
- Cahira
- Brunhilde
- Camilla
- Wanda (Of Polland)
- Aud the Deep Minded ( of Iceland)
- Banu Khorramdin ( Persian Soldier)
- Umm Umara ( Defender of Muhammed in battle)
- Gwenllian Ferch Gruffyd (Welsh Martyr)
- Gaboimilla ( Peruvian Amazon Queen)
- Maria Pita ( Spanish Heroine)
- Hedwig
- Aria
- Aoife
- Nazo Tokhl (Afghan Warrior)
- Anne Dieu-la Veut ( French Pirate and Buccaneer)
- Hanna Duston ( American)
- Ptolema
- Imelda
- Romilda
- Gabriel Silang ( Filipina Revolutionary)
- Bui Thi Xuan ( Vietnamese General)
- Mkabayi Kajama ( of Zululand)
- Tille
- Elaine Mordeax ( French Resistance Commander)
- Roza Hanina
- Peal Witherington (SOE Agent)
- Eferhild
- Viveka
- Zelda
- Alala
- Fianna
- Orithia
- Aella
- Hippolyte
- Adelaide of Susa
- Olga of Kiev
- Rusla and Stikla ( Viking Pirates)
- Hallgerd the Petty
- Agnes Hotot
- Agnes Rudolph
- Jeanne de Clisson ( French noblewoman)
- Chand Bibi ( Indian Muslin Woman Warrior)
- Madame de Saint-Baslemont ( Christain Amazon)
- Nanny of the Maroons
- Shen Yunying
- Gao Guiyuing
- Alyona ( Russian Nun)
- Tarabai
- Jacquotte Delahaye ( Caribbean Pirate)
- Xanthippe
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Catherine de Medici
- Harriet Tubman
- Elizabeth 1 of England
- Amelia Earhart
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Helen Keller
- Queen Victoria
- Margaret Thatcher
- Mary Slessor
- Oprah Winfrey
- Anne of Austria
- Empress Josephine
- Harriet Tubman
- Buffalo Calf Road Woman
- Yaa Asantewaa
- Rehana and the Kurdish Female Warriors
- Maria de Estrada
- Rui Sasaki ( Swordmaster of Edo Japan)
- Ilona Zrinyi ( Hungarian Heroine)
- Catalina de Erauso ( of South America)
There are many more notable female warriors who fought against all odds and became quite known in history for their exploits.
From warriors by scorn to warrior by choice, these women were so powerful that they sometimes eradicated an entire tribe, got killed in their passionate fight or led the liberation of many countries of today.
These women were housewives, mothers, and yet managed to led wars and became conquerors.
From the amazing works of these women, it goes without saying that the ‘Wonder Woman’ is no fictional tale but a combination of the true facts about women in history